skin-cleanliness

Updated: July 31, 2026

The object, both of ventilation and of skin-cleanliness, is pretty much the same, to wit, removing noxious matter from the system as rapidly as possible. Care should be taken in all these operations of sponging, washing, and cleansing the skin, not to expose too great a surface at once, so as to check the perspiration, which would renew the evil in another form.

Florence Nightingale - Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not